Cases

Fertility and Control: The Case of RU 486

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The pharmaceutical called RU 486--a pill which could induce miscarriage early in pregnancy--has taken its place in the pitched politics surrounding abortion. This case tracks the development and marketing of the pill with particular emphasis on...

XPORT: A Public Sector Trading Company (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case takes its place in the ongoing debate over privatization: which functions are best performed by the public sector, which should be reserved to private enterprise? In this instance, a newly-appointed executive director of the Port...

XPORT: A Public Sector Trading Company

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case takes its place in the ongoing debate over privatization: which functions are best performed by the public sector, which should be reserved to private enterprise? In this instance, a newly-appointed executive director of the Port...

Democracy and Security in the Dominican Republic: The Kennedy and Johnson Interventions

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case details the twists and turns in the US relationship with the Dominican Republic, primarily between 1959 and 1966--a time during which two American presidents had to balance a theoretical commitment to the Caribbean nation's right to...

Ricardo Sanchez de la Morena and the Institute of Industrial Promotion of Andalusia (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case provides an opportunity to discuss how the strategies and structures of governmental agencies should be molded to reflect their political, social, and economic environments, in the context of democratic institution-building in an...

Ricardo Sanchez de la Morena and the Institute of Industrial Promotion of Andalusia (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case provides an opportunity to discuss how the strategies and structures of governmental agencies should be molded to reflect their political, social, and economic environments, in the context of democratic institution-building in an...

Bringing Medicine to Methadonia: The Case of the Montefiore Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The emergence of intravenous drug users as a major group suffering from AIDS has the side effect of attracting top-flight medical researchers to methadone maintenance programs in which medical care had not been heretofore emphasized. This case...

US-Guatemalan Relations: The Struggle Over Human Rights

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This ethics and foreign policy case focuses on the relationship between the United States and the government of Guatemala, accused of widespread human rights violations and under US pressure to change. This case assumes the point of view of the...

Rise and Fall of ADEA (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case tells the story of the Army Development and Employment Agency, established by the army chief of staff in the early 1980s to procure quickly and efficiently relatively small items which could be of great use to troops in the...

Rise and Fall of ADEA

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case tells the story of the Army Development and Employment Agency, established by the army chief of staff in the early 1980s to procure quickly and efficiently relatively small items which could be of great use to troops in the...

Wilson Sloane and Debra Porter: The Case of the Racially Sensitive Discussion

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case is the story of relatively high level, white federal official who ponders how to respond to a new program idea offered by a black subordinate of whom he generally thinks highly. He is not enthusiastic, however, about a new,...

Computer-Aided Police Dispatching in Houston, Texas

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

A computer-driven police dispatching system, keyed to respond to emergency 911 calls, proves an obstacle to the implementation of an innovative new community policing system in Houston. In 1989, the city's police department faced tough questions...